HK’s Derek Ishikawa gives analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Fisher v. University of Texas (“Fisher II”). A link to the article can be found here.
Read More ›On June 23, 2016, in Fisher v. University of Texas et al., (“Fisher II”), the United States Supreme Court voted 4-3 to uphold the limited use of race in college…
Read More ›Number 36: “Family Status” Is Not a Protected Class (…or is it?) Family status discrimination (“FSD”) is an increasingly recognized term that refers to discrimination against employees on the basis…
Read More ›Number 15: Affirmative Action For Federal Contractors And Subcontractors Within months of signing Title VII into law, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 on September 24, 1965, establishing…
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California Expands Paid Family Leave Law
Yesterday, Governor Brown signed Senate Bill 770, which permits workers to take paid family leave to care for an expanded set of seriously ill relatives. Existing law, under the California…
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